Example sentences of "there [was/were] [adv] [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under the new President there was clearly going to be no relaxation of the competition between the two superpowers . |
| 2 | I think we all accepted by now that we were going to win the war , and that this time there was not going to be an armistice but final defeat for Germany . |
| 3 | She was constantly promised that there was not going to be a war and that she would soon go back to her family . |
| 4 | The conclusion that there was not going to be any hit him at the same time as Rincewind , whirring wildly down the passage , kicked him sharply in the groin . |
| 5 | She opened the door to the drawing-room , hoping there was not going to be another scene . |
| 6 | I was told that there was n't going to be any nonsense like last time . |
| 7 | He had seen the writing on the wall : after the oil crisis of 1973 there was n't going to be enough money to keep all the universities enthusiastically created or expanded in the booming sixties in the style to which they had become accustomed . |
| 8 | The only problem with this pleasing scenario was that there was n't going to be any baby . |
| 9 | I ’ m afraid I got very annoyed and left ; it was pretty obvious to me that there was n't going to be a proper discussion . ’ |
| 10 | The landlord intervened , relieved there was n't going to be any trouble . |
| 11 | Even the prince was n't particularly pleased , he said that times had changed , there was n't going to be a place any more for the likes of him ( he detested United Italy ) . |
| 12 | But my worry was that there was n't going to be enough space there for you to perhaps say all you wanted to say . |
| 13 | I was sweating , you could imagine thinking God we 're going to have to take the wheels off and drag it through with a tractor or something like that on skids , cos we needed the van for Monday and there was n't going to be a lot of t But then suddenly yes a again I suddenly th |
| 14 | There was just going to be one big thud when I hit the deck and then all would be over — my arm would stop hurting and no more 109s could make dirty passes at me behind my back . |
| 15 | There was also found to be some increase in right field advantage for dot location . |
| 16 | There was also expected to be ( i ) an attempt to reduce inflation to about 3 per cent per month ( from an estimated 30-40 per cent ) ; ( ii ) a budget deficit target of below 5 per cent of gross national product ; and ( iii ) a gradual rise in energy prices to achieve parity with world prices by the end of 1993 . |
| 17 | There was also going to be Carry On Dallas , a parody on the TV series . |
| 18 | I fought against it , but when you went away , and stayed away , despite all my letters and calls , I knew that there was never going to be any chance for me . ’ |
| 19 | There was undoubtedly seen to be a growing problem regarding adolescent girls because they were maturing a little earlier and marrying later , around 25 , and it was in this context that such horrors as clitoridectomies could be developed . |
| 20 | There was more celebrating to be done minutes later , when they took the lead . |
| 21 | There was always going to be heavy legal problems surrounding the continued use of the name The Smiths anyway , and the problems in furthering the band became unassailable . |
| 22 | All they needed was water to reconstitute them and there was definitely going to be no shortage of that particular commodity . |